Monday Musings

Since I graduated, people keep asking me what I feel like or what I am going to do now. The answer is I feel about the same, but different and I want to do everything. I feel the same in that I am still me, but I feel different in that much of my identity has been about me being a student. I am the girl who finds small victories in giving the right answer. While I can still be right, it’s not the same outside of the classroom. I know that there are lots of new and exciting things just waiting for me, and I am ready to get started. When I say I want to do everything, I mean there are so many things I haven’t been able to do because it interfered with school. Here’s just a few things on my list:

1. Read more

2. Work out

3. Eat better/Try cooking new things

4. Learn to ride my dirt bike

5. Travel more

I realize these things aren’t spectacular, but I find joy in the little things.

Today AUM started classes, and I thought I would be sad, but I’m not. In fact I feel relieved that for once, I can read at my own pace, when I want and what I want. There isn’t the rush to get to Montgomery followed by the endless drive home. Today has been pretty relaxed, as I was off work. I slept in, worked out, went to the grocery store and started dinner in the crockpot. While these are seemingly uninteresting things, I enjoyed every minute of it, because I wasn’t rushed. I think with school, that is always how I felt. I never really had time to slow down and for once I am enjoying that luxury.

I feel like graduating has opened up a door of all new possibilities for me, I just have to be willing to take that next step.